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> ...Microsoft has some magics for executing x86_64 binaries on aarch64 with good performance... I was just listening to a Windows Weekly podcast about that, a

> ...Microsoft has some magics for executing x86_64 binaries on aarch64 with good performance... I was just listening to a Windows Weekly podcast about that, and its limited to 32-bit x86 binaries only, no 64-bit support. They also said its "unusable" for 32-bit apps (in particular Chrome), because you can watch the system drawing the windows of x86 apps on the screen. Watching the video, they seem to be exaggerating a bit with "unusable", but Chrome does look sluggish, and the startup of "DrRacket" and its window redraw does look very slow too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfYcCSRMkVI&t=60m55s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfYcCSRMkVI&t=60m55s

Skunkleton 9y ago
Ahh that is a bummer. I only read about the translation stuff when it was first announced, before there was much info on the details. Edit: After watching the video, that didn't seem too bad. Perhaps it would work well enough on top of a beefier ARM processor? Of course the lack of x86_64 support is another issue that may not have a reasonable solution.